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Participants in the Changing Realities project share their involvement in the book, A Year Like No Other, and reflect on the impact COVID-19 had on care givers and low-income families. …Read more
Stewart Lansley looks at the rise of poverty in the UK and shows how a strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom. …Read more
Sukhmani Khorana, author of 'Mediated Emotions of Migration', shows how migrants are routinely dehumanied by politicians and highlights how mainstream media outlets, including the ideologically left-wing, must do better in showing refugees as thinking, feeling subjects with agency.…Read more
Following on from Martin Parker's article on university strikes yesterday, Bob Smale looks at the strikes more broadly, the background to industrial unrest and how the government's current economic difficulties are to a significant extent of their own making.…Read more
Martin Parker looks at the expansion of UK higher education and suggests that while access to education has improved, it is now based on a market that treats students as bags of cash and academics as the labour necessary to extract the value from the students.…Read more
Dave Beer looks at the latest twists in the Twitter soap opera and considers how tech platforms influence and envision an imagined future. …Read more
Mo Stewart, author of a recent article in Justice, Power and Resistance, joins those deriding Matt Hancock in the jungle and argues that it’s not a laughing matter when thousands have died from the policies he helped to create. …Read more
This policy briefing covers policy recommendations that focus on improving the lives of young people with the aim of reducing youth violence.…Read more
Tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and we're beginning the 16 Days of Activism by highlighting FearLess, a charity tackling abuse, sexual violence, and stalking. …Read more
Katharina Burger and Martin Parker look at how Bristol has localised the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be leveraged to facilitate strategic change towards sustainability in a city environment. …Read more